A Welter of Blood
MORE GERMAN "KULTUR." INHUMAN OUTRAGE AT DINANT. j MEN SHOT DOWN AND WOMEN I TORTURED. Received '9, 11.45 p.m. I Amsterdam, December 9. I The Tclegraaf publishes an eye-wit-ness's account of the Dinant outrage. The French, when evacuating the city', fired on the incoming Germans. The latter accused the townsfolk of firing. They placed 153 men on one side of the parade square, and the women and children on the other side, with a firing party between them. The scene was one of heartrending agony, the women and children kneeling and supplicating the German officers. The Germans fired, and the 153 men fell, writhing in a welter of blood Two were unhurt, and four slightly wounded. They pretended to be dead. An officer cried out that those able to rise must stand. Six men rose. Another volley, and the men fell. Then the officer ordered the machine-gunners to Are for some time upon the bodies, the women and children being meanwhile distracted with grief and terror.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 10 December 1914, Page 5
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170A Welter of Blood Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 10 December 1914, Page 5
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